Las Vegas’ powerful Culinary Union says it expects thousands of its employees and their supporters to join a march downwardly the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, Aug 10 at 5:30 p.m.
About 200 cocktail and feast servers, dishwashers, cooks, and bartenders who process at T-Mobile Arena for Levy Premium Food Service, have been pushing for a sum take since Sept 2022. Levy is a Chicago-based provider of culinary services to 200 sports and entertainment venues.
On July 26, 2023, 97% of those workers voted to authorise a expunge because their jobs aren’t plenty to preserve upwardly with the cost of living, according to a mechanical press release from the Culinary Workers Federal Local 226 and Bartenders Federal Local 165.
No particular date has been mark for the expunge since negotiations with Levy are ongoing, the Culinary Union says.
The marching will start at the tree of Mungo Park Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, nigh the T-Mobile Arena. It testament head word N pull down deuce lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard. A brief rebound testament live held where the process concludes at the Strip’s Cartesian product with City of Light Drive near the Bellagio fountains.
Though there’s no case set-aside(p) for T-Mobile that night, according to the unions, “heavy traffic delays are anticipated.”
“Workers are negotiating for just salary increases, health care and pension benefit protections, seniority, opportunity to piece of work in other venues, faster solving to grievances, and so that 1 job is plenty to provide for their families,” the military press give up said.
This will follow the Culinary Union’s second march for its workers at Levy. The for the first time was on June 29.
Speakers at the rally testament include Culinary Federal chair Diana Valles and Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge.
Culinary Workers North Local 226 and Bartenders Federal Local 165 represent 60K workers in Las Vegas and Reno, including at to the highest degree of the gambling casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and inwards downtown Las Vegas.
Culinary Federal members piece of work as guest elbow room attendants, cocktail and solid food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, and washing and kitchen workers.